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Vendor Pursues Channel with High-Performance Database
ANTs Software thinks there’s a market for its high-performance databases, and the company is hoping resellers agree. The Burlingame, Calif., company recently unveiled a partner initiative, the ANTs Software Alliance Program. The program aims to cultivate alliances with a few VARs in select vertical markets: financial services, telecommunications, health care, real-time logistics and security. The…
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Startup Devises New Way to Squash Worms
While the large anti-virus vendors continue to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours churning out updated signature files, a Utah-based startup this week plans to unveil an entirely new e-mail security solution that needs no signatures and is capable of trapping malicious messages before they reach users’ desktops. Avinti Inc.’s iSolation Server takes…
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PeopleSoft’s Changes Don’t Faze Its Partners
PeopleSoft Inc. has been fighting a hostile takeover bid from Oracle for 15 months, and then on Oct. 1, the company’s board of directors unexpectedly fired CEO Craig Conway. What are PeopleSoft’s partners making of all of this? For the most part, PeopleSoft‘s partners aren’t making much of it at all. They believe that it…
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Play it Again, Sam
It wasn’t exactly a huge integration project. In fact, it was tiny, but not as tiny as its budget. I had to upgrade the computing environment in an office so that it would handle a lot bigger workload. In this case, the job was to replace PCs with something much better to handle changing requirements,…
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HP Moves to Quell Supply Chain Issue
Hewlett-Packard Co. executives have crisscrossed the country in recent weeks to assure customers and investors that the problems that resulted in the company’s troubling third-quarter financial results are in the past. However, some skeptical users and industry analysts are taking a wait-and-see view of the situation—which cost HP’s Enterprise Storage and Server Group $400 million…
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PeopleSoft Fires CEO Conway
In the wake of a 15-month-long battle for its life, PeopleSoft Inc.’s board of directors fired CEO Craig Conway Friday morning. The board cited “a loss of confidence” in Conway’s ability to guide the company. The company’s founder and chairman, Dave Duffield, will replace Conway as CEO. Kevin Parker and Phil Wilmington will act as…
